Shannon Spann, (L), widow of the CIA's Johnny Micheal Spann, touches her lips to her hand before touching the casket at the conclusion of the funeral at Arlington National Cemetery, 10 December, 2001.
Spann's father, Johnny (C), holding his grandson, MONTGOMERY, Ala. - Mike Spann, a Marine turned CIA officer, felt a duty to go to Afghanistan in the wake of the Sept.
11, 2001, attacks.In one of his last phone calls home to check on his children, he told his father he was hopeful they would gather information to locate the mastermind of the attacks, Osama bin Laden, his father recalled.Spann was killed days later, on Nov.